By: Tonebsky Nesta
Local government chairmen across Delta state are presently developing grey hairs over the newly approved 100 percent salary increment for health workers in the state due to the huge financial burden, Fresh Angle investigation reveals.
Fresh Angle gathered from a credible source that following the implementation of the new salary structure as directed by Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan after the rerun election, one of the local government councils in the urban area needed to add additional N12 million naira to make up for January salary as a result of the increment.
Fresh Angle can also report that workers of Ndokwa East local government councils only recently called off a strike over unpaid December salary after it was alleged that the council chairman used December allocation to procure jeep for himself.
A source in the council who does not want his name in print told Fresh Angle that the strike was called off after the council chairman used January allocation to pay December 2010 salary, while awaiting February allocation to offset that off January.
Workers in Uvwie local government councils only had their January salaries paid a week after imprest was paid.
Investigation reveals that there are palpable fears among the local government chairmen whose tenure in office expires in April this year over the burden of how to pay workers’ salaries following the implementation of the new salary for health workers.
It was also gathered that the few councils that are barely coping is as a result of prudent management of excess crude allocation. There are strong indications that should the state government direct the local government chairmen to pay the impending new minimum wage without financial support activities will be grinded to a halt in all the councils.
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